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Up-Down, an arcade-bar combo will open Friday at 500 E. Locust St. in Des Moines in a space formerly occupied by The Underground bar.

Owners Sam Summers, Josh Ivey and Rafe Mateer, who also own Wooly’s, an East Village music venue, will hold a grand opening for Up-Down from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday. The first 50 people in the door will get 10 free game tokens.

The bar will feature more than 40 arcades games from the 1980s and 1990s including Atari’s Centipede, Crusi’n USA, Ms. Pacman, X-Men, NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, Asteroids, Mario Bros., Street Fighter, and a rail shooter game called Revolution X which features Aerosmith. Up-Down will also have six pinball games and three skee ball alleys. Special tournaments and leagues will be held regularly. All games will cost 25 cents to play.

The drink menu has retro-inspired cocktails and 20 beers on tap. The ‘barcade’ also will show select ‘80s and ‘90s programming on televisions and feature a new bar with access on all four sides, updated the decor and a booster to increase cell phone reception.